Trying to see which of these has the best quality. Main gripes are the text “Estus Flask” on the bottom left becoming pixelated while the camera is moving around. It’s not “unreadable” but I would like to have it not do that. Currently running a 1280x720 30 fps stream downscaled from 1920x1080 with a 2500 bitrate. Raising the bitrate to 3300 doesn’t really resolve the issue and while I have the upload to do so (around 5mbps or so) I don’t think raising it is a good idea for viewers

CPU is an Intel i5 2500k, GPU is Nvidia GTX 980

These are the samples I made. Messing around in the Forest of Giants in Dark Souls 2.

Personally I think the “Fast preset” sample looks better than the others but it still has the pixelated text. Dunno how to actually correct the problem since it seems like the only way is to use a bitrate much higher than Twitch supports (Beyond 3500)

I do feel that I shouldn’t really worry about the text being pixelated down there since most people won’t bother to look at that. I’m also trying to get a good quality video for people who are viewing it in full screen, but again most people are going to want to use the chat, so I guess I shouldn’t be worried about that either. It still bothers me though.

Trying to see which of these has the best quality. Main gripes are the text “Estus Flask” on the bottom left becoming pixelated while the camera is moving around. It’s not “unreadable” but I would like to have it not do that. Currently running a 1280x720 30 fps stream downscaled from 1920x1080 with a 2500 bitrate. Raising the bitrate to 3300 doesn’t really resolve the issue and while I have the upload to do so (around 5mbps or so) I don’t think raising it is a good idea for viewers

CPU is an Intel i5 2500k, GPU is Nvidia GTX 980

These are the samples I made. Messing around in the Forest of Giants in Dark Souls 2.

Personally I think the “Fast preset” sample looks better than the others but it still has the pixelated text. Dunno how to actually correct the problem since it seems like the only way is to use a bitrate much higher than Twitch supports (Beyond 3500)

I do feel that I shouldn’t really worry about the text being pixelated down there since most people won’t bother to look at that. I’m also trying to get a good quality video for people who are viewing it in full screen, but again most people are going to want to use the chat, so I guess I shouldn’t be worried about that either. It still bothers me though.

A higher bitrate is pretty much the only way to make it look as good as possible, as well as streaming at native monitor res. but you mentioned that already so it may just be you’re dropping packets, thought 99% of streams I watch look pretty much like that so you may just have to deal with it…sorry I can’t be more helpful dude…
Best of luck!! (only the text looks slightly poor don’t worry about it so much c: )